Med School Meta
Welcome to my meta analysis of the medical schools I am hoping to
attend. I need to compile a list of schools to apply to for next year,
and preparation on my end will be the best way that I can prepare for
that, as I have no idea which schools I am interested in applying to.
Overview
Maps
Here is a description of all the MD/PhD programs offered in the
nation. There are 115 schools, and my initial impression is how densely
populated the schools are back east. Not a ton of Western options.
Data
Total Admittance
Here is the top 30 Total MD Admittance according to school.
## short_name admittance_year
## 1 Indiana 1436
## 2 Illinois 1284
## 3 Wayne State 1186
## 4 Drexel 1095
## 5 Washington 1092
## 6 Thomas Jefferson 1082
## 7 Minnesota 1033
## 8 Augusta 969
## 9 Mcgovern Puerto Rico 962
## 10 Case Western 924
## 11 Texas Southwestern 905
## 12 Temple 866
## 13 New York 863
## 14 Texas San Antonio 857
## 15 KU 846
## 16 Ohio State 830
## 17 Miami 819
## 18 Georgetown 809
## 19 Tufts 809
## 20 Alabama 806
## 21 Albert Einstein 782
## 22 UNC 779
## 23 Kentucky 778
## 24 VCU 746
## 25 Rutgers 745
## 26 Rutgers 2 742
## 27 Texas Tech 733
## 28 Creighton 730
## 29 USC 729
## 30 South Florida 726
This is for medical students overall, not just MD/PhD students. It seems
awfully toploaded. This is a good basis to understand where my odds of
acceptance may be higher than in others.
Exploring admittance for
MD/PhD students is important as well.
MD/PhD Admittance
Here is the top 30 MD/PhD admittance according to school.
## short_name md_ph_d_year_last_3_years
## 1 Virginia 35
## 2 Washington St Louis 25
## 3 Pennsylvania 25
## 4 Harvard 22
## 5 Brown University 20
## 6 Yale 19
## 7 U of U 18
## 8 Cornell 18
## 9 NYU 17
## 10 Vanderbilt 16
## 11 Northwestern 15
## 12 Albert Einstein 15
## 13 Illinois 14
## 14 UCLA 14
## 15 Pitt 13
## 16 UNC 13
## 17 Columbia 13
## 18 Johns Hopkins 12
## 19 Cal San Francisco 12
## 20 Emory 12
## 21 Mt Sinai 12
## 22 VCU 11
## 23 Michigan 11
## 24 Baylor 11
## 25 Alabama 10
## 26 Colorado 10
## 27 Washington 10
## 28 Ohio State 10
## 29 Cal San Diego 10
## 30 Iowa 9
Not many students admitted each year across the board. It may be interesting to see the percentage of MD/PhD students admitted versus MD students admitted.
MD vs MD/PhD Admittance %
## short_name admitpercent
## 1 Washington St Louis 5.580357
## 2 Virginia 5.537975
## 3 Yale 4.656863
## 4 NYU 4.156479
## 5 Pennsylvania 3.993610
## 6 Cornell 3.991131
## 7 Vanderbilt 3.911980
## 8 U of U 3.680982
## 9 Brown University 3.294893
## 10 Harvard 3.147353
## 11 Johns Hopkins 2.553191
## 12 Northwestern 2.311248
## 13 Mt Sinai 2.259887
## 14 Columbia 2.253033
## 15 Mayo 2.200489
## 16 Pitt 2.131148
## 17 Rochester 2.054795
## 18 Emory 2.023609
## 19 UCLA 1.941748
## 20 Cal San Diego 1.919386
## 21 Albert Einstein 1.918159
## 22 Cal San Francisco 1.857585
## 23 Stanford 1.832994
## 24 U Conn 1.769912
## 25 UNC 1.668806
## 26 SUNY Stony Brook 1.651376
## 27 Arizona 1.629328
## 28 Michigan 1.582734
## 29 Duke 1.577909
## 30 Baylor 1.525659
This graph shows us the highest percentage of MD/PhD students
per the total of those admitted to medical school. Again, sort of a
highest odds, kind of thing.
40 Furthest Distance from Temple
## short_name distance_to_temple_mi
## 1 Mississippi 275
## 2 North Dakota 253
## 3 East Tennessee 251
## 4 LSU Shreveport 200
## 5 West Virginia 198
## 6 South Alabama 196
## 7 Pitt 190
## 8 Arkansas 156
## 9 Case Western 150
## 10 Northeastern Ohio 145
## 11 U Wisconsin 143
## 12 Marshall 142
## 13 South Dakota 129
## 14 Dartmouth 128
## 15 Virginia 121
## 16 VCU 121
## 17 South Carolina 120
## 18 Missouri 110
## 19 Wake Forest 107
## 20 Florida 106
## 21 Albany 97
## 22 East Carolina 96
## 23 LSU New Orleans 95
## 24 Penn State 95
## 25 Iowa 94
## 26 SUNY Buffalo 94
## 27 Cincinnati 88
## 28 Augusta 84
## 29 Toledo 84
## 30 Mayo 82
## 31 Texas A&M 76
## 32 Texas Galveston 76
## 33 Georgia 75
## 34 Wisconsin 75
## 35 Tulane 73
## 36 Kentucky 72
## 37 SUNY Upstate 67
## 38 Wright State 66
## 39 Nebraska 63
## 40 Brown University 57
The temple is entirely important to me, so let’s see which medical
schools are the furthest from the temple.
60 Closest Distance to Temple
## short_name distance_to_temple_mi
## 1 UCLA 1.2
## 2 Thomas Jefferson 1.6
## 3 Cal San Diego 1.8
## 4 Cal Irvine 2.0
## 5 Cornell 2.0
## 6 Pennsylvania 2.2
## 7 Mt Sinai 2.5
## 8 NYU 3.2
## 9 U Conn 3.6
## 10 Temple 3.8
## 11 U of U 3.9
## 12 U South Carolina 4.8
## 13 Harvard 5.0
## 14 Tufts 5.0
## 15 Creighton 5.0
## 16 Drexel 6.0
## 17 Texas Tech 6.2
## 18 Columbia 6.4
## 19 Nevada 6.7
## 20 Arizona 7.0
## 21 Texas Southwestern 8.5
## 22 Ohio State 9.0
## 23 Oregon 9.0
## 24 Georgetown 9.2
## 25 Howard 9.3
## 26 Loma Linda 9.6
## 27 South Florida 9.8
## 28 New Mexico 12.0
## 29 Texas San Antonio 12.0
## 30 Washington 12.0
## 31 SUNY Downstate 12.3
## 32 Boston U 13.0
## 33 KC Missouri 13.0
## 34 Emory 13.6
## 35 Colorado 14.0
## 36 Washington St Louis 14.0
## 37 Alabama 15.0
## 38 KU 15.0
## 39 Saint Louis 15.0
## 40 USC 16.0
## 41 Rutgers 2 16.0
## 42 Memphis Tennessee 16.0
## 43 Louisville 17.0
## 44 Minnesota 17.0
## 45 Albert Einstein 17.0
## 46 Cal Davis 18.0
## 47 Morehouse 19.0
## 48 Wayne State 19.0
## 49 Vanderbilt 19.0
## 50 Cal San Francisco 20.0
## 51 Chicago Medical 20.0
## 52 UNC 21.0
## 53 Indiana 22.0
## 54 Meharry 22.3
## 55 Northwestern 24.0
## 56 Oklahoma 24.0
## 57 Illinois 25.0
## 58 Loyola 25.0
## 59 Duke 25.0
## 60 New York 27.3
And this shows the ones that are closest to the temple.
40 Lowest Home Prices
## short_name home
## 1 Wayne State 66000
## 2 Mississippi 81000
## 3 Case Western 106000
## 4 Wright State 106000
## 5 Toledo 108000
## 6 SUNY Upstate 139000
## 7 Marshall 140000
## 8 Rochester 149000
## 9 Memphis Tennessee 149000
## 10 Augusta 163000
## 11 Georgia 163000
## 12 Alabama 169900
## 13 KU 171000
## 14 Saint Louis 172000
## 15 Washington St Louis 172000
## 16 South Alabama 175000
## 17 Wisconsin 180000
## 18 LSU Shreveport 185000
## 19 Oklahoma 192000
## 20 Texas Tech 201000
## 21 U South Carolina 206000
## 22 SUNY Buffalo 209000
## 23 Johns Hopkins 210000
## 24 Maryland 210000
## 25 Indiana 217000
## 26 Arkansas 224000
## 27 South Dakota 224000
## 28 KC Missouri 226000
## 29 Louisville 228000
## 30 Cincinnati 229000
## 31 Drexel 230000
## 32 Temple 230000
## 33 Pennsylvania 230000
## 34 Thomas Jefferson 230000
## 35 Loyola 234000
## 36 Pitt 237000
## 37 Ohio State 237000
## 38 Albany 239000
## 39 East Carolina 250000
## 40 Missouri 258000
An interesting part of data, but not one that I think I need to use
to make the decision of what schools to apply to. This would be
important for a tertiary level of decision making, or even as a means to
help decide after being accepted to multiple schools.
40 Highest Home Prices
keeps2 <- c("short_name","home")
temp2 = my_df[keeps2]
top15 <- temp2 %>%
arrange(desc(home)) %>%
slice(1:40)
top15## short_name home
## 1 Stanford 4047000
## 2 Cal San Diego 2600000
## 3 Cal San Francisco 1300000
## 4 Cal Irvine 1200000
## 5 Washington 984000
## 6 USC 965000
## 7 UCLA 965000
## 8 Dartmouth 912000
## 9 Cal Davis 875000
## 10 SUNY Stony Brook 759000
## 11 Hofstra 759000
## 12 New York 759000
## 13 Albert Einstein 759000
## 14 SUNY Downstate 759000
## 15 Columbia 759000
## 16 NYU 759000
## 17 Mt Sinai 759000
## 18 Cornell 759000
## 19 Tufts 741000
## 20 Harvard 740000
## 21 Boston U 739000
## 22 U of U 625000
## 23 Nevada 624000
## 24 Howard 600000
## 25 Georgetown 600000
## 26 Oregon 600000
## 27 UNC 591000
## 28 Loma Linda 591000
## 29 Colorado 575000
## 30 Miami 494000
## 31 South Carolina 477000
## 32 Michigan 471000
## 33 Virginia 467000
## 34 Rutgers 439000
## 35 Meharry 437000
## 36 Vanderbilt 437000
## 37 South Florida 405000
## 38 Rutgers 2 402000
## 39 Morehouse 390000
## 40 Emory 390000top15 %>%
ggplot(mapping = aes(x = short_name, y = home))+
geom_point()+
theme(axis.text.x = element_text(angle=60, hjust=1))
Again, not a decision maker, but something to be mindful of for the
future.
40 Highest Caucasian %
## short_name caucasian
## 1 Northeastern Ohio 95.50
## 2 South Dakota 86.60
## 3 Texas Tech 86.50
## 4 West Virginia 85.70
## 5 Marshall 85.00
## 6 East Tennessee 84.80
## 7 North Dakota 84.20
## 8 Cal San Diego 82.50
## 9 Colorado 80.90
## 10 Texas San Antonio 80.34
## 11 Texas Galveston 80.30
## 12 Miami 79.00
## 13 U Wisconsin 78.59
## 14 Mayo 78.40
## 15 Iowa 78.10
## 16 Texas A&M 77.81
## 17 Penn State 77.30
## 18 Missouri 76.00
## 19 Nebraska 75.50
## 20 Creighton 75.50
## 21 Oregon 75.30
## 22 Kentucky 74.86
## 23 Dartmouth 74.80
## 24 South Carolina 74.08
## 25 U Conn 73.30
## 26 U of U 72.84
## 27 Nevada 72.20
## 28 UNC 71.30
## 29 New Mexico 70.30
## 30 Virginia 70.00
## 31 Louisville 69.92
## 32 Michigan 69.50
## 33 Arizona 69.30
## 34 UMASS 67.70
## 35 Pitt 66.40
## 36 Oklahoma 65.90
## 37 Washington 65.80
## 38 Meharry 65.50
## 39 Vanderbilt 65.50
## 40 Florida 64.50
Lastly, this isn’t a main decision maker. Something I need to look into
later on.
1st Analysis
Research vs. Primary Care
## short_name school_rank
## 1 Cal San Francisco 3.605551
## 2 Washington 9.055385
## 3 Harvard 9.055385
## 4 Pitt 17.204651
## 5 Pennsylvania 20.880613
## 6 UCLA 23.021729
## 7 UNC 25.495098
## 8 Michigan 26.248809
## 9 Baylor 27.202941
## 10 Colorado 27.658633
## 11 Texas Southwestern 29.681644
## 12 Stanford 31.048349
## 13 Oregon 32.249031
## 14 Maryland 32.649655
## 15 Chicago 36.055513
## 16 Brown University 37.696154
## 17 Cal San Diego 37.735925
## 18 Mayo 38.626416
## 19 Alabama 41.231056
## 20 U Wisconsin 42.059482
## 21 U of U 43.011626
## 22 Minnesota 43.104524
## 23 Ohio State 43.863424
## 24 Iowa 44.011362
## 25 Vanderbilt 44.922155
## 26 Rochester 45.221676
## 27 Virginia 46.097722
## 28 Northwestern 46.238512
## 29 Indiana 47.010637
## 30 Cornell 47.127487
## 31 Emory 47.413078
## 32 NYU 48.041649
## 33 UMASS 48.052055
## 34 Boston U 48.166378
## 35 Cal Davis 51.623638
## 36 Johns Hopkins 52.086467
## 37 Nebraska 53.460266
## 38 Washington St Louis 57.070132
## 39 USC 59.059292
## 40 Dartmouth 59.203040
## 41 Texas San Antonio 59.203040
## 42 Florida 60.605280
## 43 KU 64.776539
## 44 Albert Einstein 67.119297
## 45 Cincinnati 67.475922
## 46 Yale 68.731361
## 47 Tufts 71.840100
## 48 Mt Sinai 71.847060
## 49 South Florida 72.470684
## 50 Memphis Tennessee 72.801099This is an exploration of the data. What I did here was visualize the data in a cartesian coordinate system, with research and primary care rank being on the x and y systems. This helped me visualize how the two relate.
With this, I wanted to see which of the schools was “closest” to 0, as that would be the one that is absolute best. I took the square root of each the research rank squared and primary care rank squared. According to pygathorean theory, this will give the length of the line from “0,0”. The smaller the number, the better the combined ranks.
According to this, Cal San Fran is the best school, according to the combination of research and primary care.
Research and Temple Distance
Ultimately, I love research and I love the temple. I think that these are the two biggest things I hope to consider. Let’s explore the two together, similar to the last one.
This plot explores research rank and distance to the temple, with the
closer one is to zero being the better result. I need to run a similar
square root assessment as before.
## short_name temple_research
## 1 NYU 3.773592
## 2 Harvard 5.099020
## 3 Pennsylvania 6.390618
## 4 Columbia 7.068239
## 5 Mt Sinai 11.280514
## 6 Cornell 14.142136
## 7 Washington 15.000000
## 8 Washington St Louis 17.804494
## 9 UCLA 19.037857
## 10 Cal San Diego 20.080837
## 11 Cal San Francisco 20.223748
## 12 Vanderbilt 23.021729
## 13 Duke 25.709920
## 14 Emory 25.864261
## 15 Texas Southwestern 26.405492
## 16 Northwestern 29.410882
## 17 Colorado 30.413813
## 18 Ohio State 31.320920
## 19 USC 32.249031
## 20 UNC 32.649655
## 21 Oregon 33.241540
## 22 Boston U 34.539832
## 23 U of U 35.216615
## 24 Alabama 35.341194
## 25 Stanford 35.902646
## 26 Chicago 36.055513
## 27 Johns Hopkins 37.121422
## 28 Baylor 37.202150
## 29 Albert Einstein 40.718546
## 30 Yale 45.122057
## 31 Maryland 45.453273
## 32 Minnesota 46.238512
## 33 Indiana 46.529560
## 34 South Florida 47.032329
## 35 Michigan 48.104054
## 36 Texas San Antonio 48.507731
## 37 Rochester 50.931326
## 38 Cal Irvine 51.039201
## 39 Miami 51.865210
## 40 Cal Davis 54.083269
## 41 Thomas Jefferson 56.022852
## 42 Tufts 56.222771
## 43 Georgetown 56.750683
## 44 UMASS 61.073726
## 45 Illinois 61.326992
## 46 Mcgovern Puerto Rico 61.400326
## 47 U Conn 62.104428
## 48 KU 65.734314
## 49 Brown University 66.887966
## 50 Temple 68.106094Awesome, another analysis down. With this, we can be assured that NYU is the best for research and temple distance.
Research and MCAT Score
I am sure there is, but my next thought was what the correlation looked like between research rank and MCAT score. A simple plot should show this information to me.
Alright, based on that alone, the regression seems super strong. I don’t need much more statistical analysis. This just shows that if I want to go to a high level research university, I have to have a great MCAT score.
Research and Total Admittance
This plot is hard to read. Let’s look at it graphically.
## short_name admit_research
## 1 Washington 12.83978
## 2 Harvard 14.34106
## 3 Cal San Francisco 15.76790
## 4 Pennsylvania 17.06408
## 5 Columbia 17.58876
## 6 Duke 20.61628
## 7 Johns Hopkins 21.48705
## 8 Pitt 21.55794
## 9 Mt Sinai 21.80961
## 10 Stanford 21.88146
## 11 Michigan 22.27170
## 12 Northwestern 22.94376
## 13 UCLA 23.52374
## 14 NYU 24.53154
## 15 Washington St Louis 24.88466
## 16 Baylor 26.00705
## 17 Cornell 26.22288
## 18 Case Western 26.32730
## 19 Yale 26.47131
## 20 Texas Southwestern 27.33306
## 21 Vanderbilt 27.69109
## 22 Emory 27.71957
## 23 Cal San Diego 27.72010
## 24 UNC 28.10316
## 25 Mayo 28.17439
## 26 Colorado 30.57519
## 27 USC 31.17960
## 28 Ohio State 32.32892
## 29 Maryland 33.47595
## 30 Chicago 33.62232
## 31 Virginia 33.91697
## 32 Alabama 34.32102
## 33 Boston U 35.53711
## 34 Oregon 36.11892
## 35 Brown University 38.68343
## 36 Albert Einstein 39.14749
## 37 U Wisconsin 39.55513
## 38 U of U 40.53638
## 39 Florida 40.75789
## 40 Indiana 41.58719
## 41 Rochester 43.47708
## 42 Minnesota 44.07622
## 43 Iowa 44.13605
## 44 Miami 44.69994
## 45 Cincinnati 45.21735
## 46 South Florida 48.01798
## 47 Texas San Antonio 48.42682
## 48 UMASS 49.36087
## 49 Wake Forest 50.16759
## 50 Dartmouth 53.86577Well cool. Washington has the highest number of admittance versus research rank in the nation.
Research and MD/PhD
Now we copy almost exactly what we studied before, except this time, we are only looking into the number of MD/PhD students admitted versus their MCAT score.
And a table to understand this better:
## short_name padmit_research
## 1 Harvard 4.654155
## 2 NYU 6.213057
## 3 Pennsylvania 7.211103
## 4 Columbia 8.256609
## 5 Johns Hopkins 8.856887
## 6 Cal San Francisco 8.856887
## 7 Yale 11.300479
## 8 Washington St Louis 11.704700
## 9 Washington 13.453624
## 10 Stanford 13.691486
## 11 Mt Sinai 13.800161
## 12 Duke 13.865425
## 13 Vanderbilt 14.424372
## 14 Cornell 15.062012
## 15 Pitt 15.974091
## 16 Mayo 17.873354
## 17 Northwestern 18.260461
## 18 Michigan 19.278087
## 19 UCLA 20.298286
## 20 Cal San Diego 22.360680
## 21 Emory 23.525400
## 22 Baylor 23.804299
## 23 UNC 26.156674
## 24 Colorado 28.792360
## 25 Virginia 30.135747
## 26 Maryland 31.579265
## 27 Ohio State 31.622777
## 28 Alabama 33.526109
## 29 Oregon 33.874132
## 30 Brown University 35.355339
## 31 U of U 35.438174
## 32 Albert Einstein 37.595804
## 33 Rochester 38.632328
## 34 Florida 39.054449
## 35 Iowa 42.478898
## 36 Indiana 43.417527
## 37 USC 43.532874
## 38 Cincinnati 44.412350
## 39 Minnesota 44.412350
## 40 Miami 45.310944
## 41 UMASS 48.633836
## 42 Texas San Antonio 49.867602
## 43 Cal Irvine 53.654243
## 44 SUNY Stony Brook 54.152163
## 45 Nebraska 55.558778
## 46 Illinois 56.453701
## 47 Mcgovern Puerto Rico 56.648036
## 48 South Carolina 57.378132
## 49 Dartmouth 57.620405
## 50 Georgetown 59.464275As Harvard is the closest one to zero, it has the highest number of MD/PhD students according to the highest research rank.